The Boy's Spring Book: Descriptive of the Season, Scenery, Rural Life, and Country AmusementsChapman & Hall, 1847 - 120 pages |
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The Boy's Spring Book: Descriptive of the Season, Scenery, Rural Life and ... Thomas Miller Affichage du livre entier - 1847 |
The Boy's Spring Book: Descriptive of the Season, Scenery, Rural Life, and ... Thomas Miller Affichage du livre entier - 1847 |
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amid amongst amusement ancient bank beautiful bees beside Billy blossoms bough boyish bright eye buds butterfly called Canute cold colour companions covered cowslips dark day's pleasure dead delight door eggs endeavour fancy farmer feed feel feet fellow fields flowers frog gather gorse grass grave green grey hand HARVARD COLLEGE head heard heart hedges hive hole hurry Julius Cæsar keep knew leaves little eyes little Nell look magpie may-blossoms maypole merry morning neighbourhood neighbouring nest never Never-sweat Never-sweat-a-hair night once parents passed peck peep perhaps pleasant pleasure poor primroses ramble RAT-CATCHER rats river rooks round scarcely season seemed shuttlecock sing sleep smock-frock snake sometimes spot Spring stoat stood Summer sunshine swallowed sweet tail tall tell thing thought tiful trees village viper wander warm watch Whitsuntide wild wings woods
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Page 119 - Where the great Sun begins his state Robed in flames and amber light, The clouds in thousand liveries dight; While the ploughman, near at hand, Whistles o'er the furrow'd land, And the milkmaid singeth blithe, And the mower whets his scythe, And every shepherd tells his tale Under the hawthorn in the dale.
Page 106 - For them no more the blazing hearth shall burn, Or busy housewife ply her evening care: No children run to lisp their sire's return, Or climb his knees the envied kiss to share. Oft did the harvest to their sickle yield, Their furrow oft the stubborn glebe has broke: How jocund did they drive their team afield ! How bowed the woods beneath their sturdy stroke!
Page 69 - Thus challenged forth, see thither one by one, From every side assembling playmates run ; A thousand wily antics mark their stay, A starting crowd impatient of delay. Like the fond dove from fearful prison freed, Each seems to say, " Come, let us try our speed...
Page 27 - By his loved mansionry that the heaven's breath Smells wooingly here : no jutty, frieze, Buttress, nor coign of vantage, but this bird Hath made his pendent bed and procreant cradle : Where they most breed and haunt, I have observed The air is delicate.
Page 27 - A bird's nest. Mark it well ! — within, without ; No tool had he that wrought — no knife to cut, No nail to fix — no bodkin to insert — No glue to join ; his little beak was all. And yet how neatly finished ! What nice hand. With every implement and means of art, And twenty years...
Page 54 - To reign in the air from earth to highest sky, To feed on flowers and weeds of glorious feature, To take whatever thing doth please the eye ? Who rests not pleased with such happiness, Well worthy he to taste of wretchedness.
Page 114 - Confess ye now how frivolous and vain is the might of an earthly king compared to that great power who rules the elements, and can say unto the ocean, ' Thus far shalt thou go, and no farther.
Page 1 - When daisies pied, and violets blue, And lady-smocks all silver white, And cuckoo-buds of yellow hue, Do paint the meadows with delight...
Page 69 - Come let us try our speed;" Away they scour, impetuous, ardent, strong, The green turf trembling as they bound along...